Look what's slipped into legislation without much of a whisper, (to the public), on 23rd March. The Genetic Technology Act.
"The Act sets in motion changes to allow farmers to grow crops which are drought and disease resistant and help breed animals that are protected from catching harmful diseases". Precision breeding involves using technologies such as gene editing to adapt the genetic code of organisms - creating traits in plants and animals that through traditional breeding would take decades to achieve. This enables scientists to create foods that are more flexible and adaptable. Genome editing is a group of techniques that enable changes to an organism’s DNA, and the RSPCA have warned that editing an animal’s genome involves procedures that could cause “pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm”. Gene editing was previously subject to the strict rules and regulations that control genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but under this new law gene-edited animals and food will not be classed in England as GMOs and will not need to be labelled as such. Please note, this is CRISPR technology. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/6/contents/enacted
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